Quotes About Religion

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

if God is everywhere, why do I have to go to Church on Sunday?

Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? Ah, such a book!

Religion is the opium of the people!

Eccola chiesa di Nostra Signora, un edificio antico, con l'adobe annerito dal tempo. Decido di entrarci. Per ragioni sentimentali, non per altro. Non ho mai letto Lenin, ma l'ho sentito citare: la religione è l'oppio dei popoli. Quanto a me, sono ateo: ho letto L' Anticristo e la considero un'opera fondamentale. Credo nel cambiamento dei valori, Signore. La Chiesa deve sparire; è il ricettacolo degli stolti, delle canaglie e delle mezze cartucce.

I let go, crying and unable to stop, because God was such a dirty crook, such a contemptible skunk; that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman wouldn't be so maimed, and neither would the world.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.

Aye! Claiming to be able to keep Mountshannon safe. Funny how religious folks like that say their god will protect them—right up until someone hits them with a club." "Still

Religion requires action, labour, diligence; for it does not consist in airy, empty notions and speculations of the head but in the exercise of the mind and heart. Habits must be exerted; grace, improved. Heaven (that is, all uphill) must be strived for and gotten, as it were, by force and victory.

The blessed Gospel of Christ is what I hold; that do I believe, that have I taught, and that will I never revoke!

And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

The Jesuit turned away, saying, sarcastically, "The Protestants are impenetrable rocks." "You are mistaken," said Kutnaur, "it is Christ that is the Rock, and we are firmly fixed upon Him.

Trouble me not, friar, I have confessed my sins to God, and obtained absolution through the merits of Jesus Christ.

I was brought up in a religion by which I was always taught to renounce the devil; but should I comply with your desire, and go to Mass, I should be sure to meet him there in a variety of shapes.

Oh, ye papists, behold! ye look for miracles; here now may you see a miracle; for in this fire I feel no more pain than if I were in bed; for it is as sweet to me as a bed of roses." Thus he resigned his soul into the hands of his Redeemer.

On the death of Leo X. in 1521, Adrian, the inquisitor general was elected pope. He had laid the foundation of his papal celebrity in Spain. "It appears, according to the most moderate calculation, that during the five years of the ministry of Adrian, 24,025 persons were condemned by the inquisition, of whom one thousand six hundred and twenty were burned alive.

Queen Mary's succession to the throne, when the Gospel and true religion were banished, and the Antichrist of Rome, with his superstition and idolatry, introduced.

The introduction of the Protestant religion into Ireland may be principally attributed to George Browne, an Englishman, who was consecrated archbishop of Dublin on the nineteenth of March, 1535.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

Mr. Saunders then slowly moved towards the fire, sank to the earth and prayed; he then rose up, embraced the stake, and frequently said, "Welcome, thou cross of Christ! welcome everlasting life!" Fire was then put to the fagots, and, he was overwhelmed by the dreadful flames, and sweetly slept in the Lord Jesus.

Bonner had served a poor blind harper in nearly the same manner, who had steadily maintained a hope that if every joint of him were to be burnt, he should not fly from the faith.

the pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.